Australian regulator reduces audit requirements for low risk plantation projects
Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator has announced it is lowering audit requirements for low-risk, small scale plantation forestry projects.
Read MoreAustralian agriculture giant announces carbon partnerships with farmers
An Australian agriculture giant and real estate company has announced a carbon partnership this week that aims to assist local farmers develop projects.
Read MoreSouth Australia ringfences over A$11 mln to support nature restoration on private lands
South Australia has announced the allocation of A$11.4 million ($8 mln) in grants to help landowners enhance and protect nature within their properties.
Read MoreAustralia a ‘hotspot’ for SAF feedstock, but will struggle to keep it onshore, senate committee hears
Australia will struggle to keep sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) it produces onshore without government procurement or mandates, a senate committee on the Future Made in Australia legislation heard Thursday.
Read MorePlantation carbon developer charts course on ACCU projects, pays special dividend on back of success
An Australian wood chip processor and woodfibre exporter turned carbon developer outlined its market plans Thursday, suggesting strong rewards from a tightening compliance market and large upside to its particular Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs).
Read MoreAustralia Market Roundup: Regulator issues around 650,000 ACCUs, ASX ACCU futures quiet
The Clean Energy Regulator (CER) has issued just under 650,000 Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) in its latest update, as the Australian side of the ASX futures contract for carbon credits remains largely nascent, one month since it was launched.
Read MoreAustralian miner says committed to ‘real zero’ by 2030, shuns offsets
Fortescue, one of Australia’s iron ore giants, used Wednesday’s full year financial results presentation to underline its plans to hit zero emissions for Scopes 1 and 2 by the end of this decade despite its diesel-heavy carbon footprint.
Read MoreAustralian supermarket giant commits to SBTi deforestation targets
Australian supermarket giant Woolworths Group will stop selling beef and other commodities linked to deforestation by the end of next year, in accordance with Science-based Targets Initiative (SBTi) guidance, it said on Wednesday.
Read MoreACCU Scheme reforms well underway, but needed legislative changes still in the works, govt says
The Australian government has said its work to strengthen the integrity of the country’s carbon crediting scheme is well in hand in its response to both the 2023 and 2020 review of the market by the Climate Change Authority (CCA).
Read MoreAustralia bets on SAF to decarbonise crucial aviation industry
Australia plans to decarbonise its aviation industry in coming years, both domestically and internationally, but government support will be needed to drive the uptake of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), according to a government white paper released on Monday.
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